as we worked into thursday our goal was two things, finish enough work on the house we were tasked with and then get home to spend a last hour or two playing basketball with our friends before we engaged in our closing evening activities. those consisted of a dinner in the french quarter, cleaning our place of residence, and then our traditional awards ceremony. as we arrived at our house site on thursday we noticed that our debris pile had deminished substantially. it appears that the scavengers had come by and not only taken the large appliances for scrap metal, but also the wood wall boards. not a big deal as it made more space to pile in more drywall, insulation and other such building supplies. we had a number of improvised methods for taking down the ceiling & hvac. from climbing into the attic and punching through with our feet just jumping up and grabbing and then letting gravity do its work.
unfortunately for the home, there was too much obvious foundation damage to allow it to be rebuilt/remodeled. in all likely hood it would be torn down (like many in the neighborhood) and sold as a flat lot. our work though will allow the homeowners to atleast keep this house in their name to make that decision. knowing the future of the house structure made it really hard to keep motivated to finish. the hard work we put into the past two days and the finishing off the houses had everyone zapped. i am not sure we would have been able to put together a quality fourth day of gutting a house. so we put the home to a state that made it noticably prepared and treated.
when we got home, many cleaned themselves up and headed over to the basketball court. there was not as many folks as evenings past. partly because this was still later afternoon. we had a successful campaign this time as we won two games.. with a little help from will. he seemed to be the guy that was always given to us as consolation. when the games ended, we gave the ball we bought for the week to will, said our goodbyes, and then headed home.
